So my husband and I like to spend our nights before hitting the hay having discussions about all manner of things. Sometimes we make goals and plans for the future, and other times we simply speculate on the nature of this plane of existence.
One thing that has remained consistent for many years, according to our current level of knowledge and belief, is that we are Immortal living spirits having an earthly experience. When I have a flying dream, for example, I wake up with the knowledge on what it feels like to fly. In body, not in a machine of some kind. It's indescribable and nothing in this current existence explains how I could know such a feeling. The same with those free falling dreams, as I've never dropped from anything higher than about five feet.
Really it all comes back to these two things- we don't know where we came from before this current incarnation began, and we don't know where we go once we leave it. As far as I'm aware, these are unknowable, unanswerable questions. But it's a whole lot of fun to speculate!
Our current topic of conversation sprang from an argument between friends on the shape of the earth. One insists we've been told the whole truth, that it's a round spinning ball in space and that's that. The other insists we've been lied to and that it's actually a flat plane.
Flat earth, in our opinion, just doesn't hold up. And it is definitely true that our history has been skewed, enough so that it is certainly possible that the current commonly held belief is also lacking. So we decided to examine an alternative option to both of these.
What if the earth was actually inside of a crater, under a dome?
We've all heard tales of how you can't sail past certain points on the "globe". The poles are heavily monitored for instance, and there are many legends that have sprung from the ice wall of Antarctica, and many story ideas, like The Truman Show have sprung from these ideas.
If this were in fact a crater on a much larger surface- imagine an egg shaped moon rock, and each indent is a potential "alien planet"- and the sun was at the center of this egg- essentially the yolk- and the dome (we know it as the Van Etten belt) is made from something that we just do not have the technology to penetrate, but it is clear and therefore what we call stars are actually the sun's reflection off of the many other craters on the surface of the egg. The moon, is just a disc like piece of shell debris that also reflects the sun and gives us light at night. And other craters might not have any moon like debris, while others may have multiples.
Actually, if you've ever seen a garden in a bottle, then you can imagine each of these craters is like that.
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So each of these craters were initially populated with some kind of organic life, and over the epochs, that life radically changed. Since all that would be needed to keep them going is sunlight based on this idea, it would in fact be possible for there to be many other life forms and species springing forth in other craters.
Now is where the idea gets really fun- so many potential ways to explain the many different myths and legends! Giants and Bigfoot, reptilian creatures and shape shifters. The beings from fairy tales. The nature of this particular crater, who is in control and why. And where does gold fit in to it all?
My hubs wrote an outline based on this idea, with a theory of our evolution here, incorporating some of these legends, but since it's long and I want to also include my own thoughts, I will make a follow up post with it tomorrow. If nothing else, it makes for an excellent start to a sci-fi novel!
We are stardust...
One of the things I loved the most was the flat earth concept of the Ice Wall because before game of thrones there just weren't many people saying that such a thing was a thing. Then GOT comes out and suddenly it's all the ice wall, THE ICE WALL!!
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That is absolutely true, haha, I did not hear much, if anything about a flat earth until then! I think it's fine, and fun, to muse over different possibilities, it's just when people get too serious and adamant about them that I cringe back. But, put in the frame of fiction, the sky is the limit! :0)
I love thinking about the possibilities. The universe is so endless it is almost beyond imagining. To think we know everything is just mental?
Exactly! As long as we don't have the answers to where we came from and where we go, then so much is just conjecture by limited minds- honestly though, the limitations create mystery, and mystery is grand :)
This is a pretty fascinating theory to think about @dreemit. If the theory were correct the ufos sightings could just be our "night watchmen". They could easily go from crater to crater, checking in on various civilizations. I can't wait to see how this unfolds in your creative process.
I'm beginning to believe in the simulation theory. If you look at the trajectory of our evolution our path is taking us directly into a virtual world (meta verse) of our own design. Each physical dimension could just be a different virtual environment. Recent research done on the human brain is piecing together how much different "physical reality" is than humans actually perceive it. Our brains seem to be the processor that takes all of the physical stimuli we encounter and stitches it together into the "reality" that we experience. What if what we perceive as "incarnations" are just restarting the game?
I have vivid and persistent memories of the past. One of them is my walking in a fair or carnival in what seems like the late 1800's. It's a summer evening and I have a summer straw hat on and a linen suit. I remember seeing the sunset and feeling immense happiness.
I have absolutely entertained the * idea that we are in a very sophisticated virtual reality. In fact, I was almost convinced of it, and still consider it viable. I have also had vivid dreams of being in other times, as well having strong connections to the music and the culture of countries I've not yet visited, and music from times gone by while not feeling a connection at all to other places and cultures.
In this story I'm going to examine it from a more visceral and physical angle. That we are in fact here, and virtual reality is still in the future. I want to explain this existence in a way that pieces together myths and legends that have a commonality, and in a way that connects us much more fully to the universe itself :) If we are pieces of the sun, which is a magnificent being of light that has not reached its hatching, perhaps our much larger purpose is for all of our energy and creativity to feed this being, which is also us, to aid in its birth.
Really the concept came from philosophizing with my husband, about how everything comes from an egg. Even seeds could be seen as a type of egg :)
Thank you so much Eric, I really appreciate your time! <3
You're very welcome, my friend! Best of luck in creating this next piece of fiction...world-building is so incredibly fun.
Sometimes I feel like I'm into every "conspiracy theory" that ever lived, apart from one...The flat earth story is retarded!
https://truth11.com/2016/06/14/flat-earth-psyop-cia-blackop-designed-to-destroy-the-truth-movement/
Haha, this is so true. It's just that it can be debunked so easily.
I feel like you could make so many stories out of that idea XD
I love this idea! Not entirely sure it will hold water, but certainly fun to play with :-) Sorry I haven't been popping in to visit. I've been writing about what's been happeneing here in NZ but not checking in on my friends :-(
That's the challenge of it, it would be my job to get people to suspend judgment by making it plausible:) I have a friend who has never liked any kind of fantasy fiction, her logical brain just does not get into things like vampires and werewolves yet she read both of my books on the subject three times :0)
No worries Deb, you've been putting your heart and soul into making a difference, this friend understands!